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What is Creativity? – An Audience With Ferran Adrià 26 Jul 2013 | 06:55 pm
London, UK It is a question that quietly haunts chefs: what is creativity? From raw ingredients, fire and knives a meal is created, but is it inherently creative? As individual professionals are ...
Bringing Oysters to Curious Places 22 Jul 2013 | 01:35 am
Serving oysters with a unique twist Richard Boucher and his team at The Curious Oyster Catering Co. have been bringing their wares to different venues across Vancouver. In the spring I attended their...
The Protester’s Guide to Good Eats 15 Jul 2013 | 08:04 pm
I would like to personally thank the protestors of Gastown and Downtown East Side restaurants. If it were not for the haute couture balaclava clad fashions and poetic typographic masterpieces on placa...
Chinese Soul Food 11 Jul 2013 | 02:53 pm
Chinese Soul Food. Photo by Kaishin Chu © 2013 I finally got around to making renditions of some favorite dishes of mine from the Yunnan and Hunan cuisine, as well as a Hakka dish that I learned from...
Tyranny of Craft Beer 30 Jun 2013 | 07:13 pm
London, UK – How did craft beer come to rule our taps? Who allowed the pleasure of a simple pint to drown under barrels of manhandled complexity? This insincere and insidious “movement” of macho...
Koryo Saram Carrot Salad 13 Jun 2013 | 03:13 am
Koreans in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, or Koryo Saram as they call themselves, are the oldest Korean diaspora in the world, having migrated to Russia from Korea in late 19th century. The...
Savouring the Garden 11 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
“I’ve never seen so much cutlery!” exclaimed my tablemate. The pathway that leads to the front door of Savour in the Garden, the new restaurant headed by Chef Alex Haun, is winding and a bit rocky. T...
Contest: We All Need Our Own Patch 8 Jun 2013 | 01:47 am
They say gardening is good therapy. And I agree. I come from a small town in southern Manitoba, where I spent much of my youth on the farm. When we moved out west we lived in a suburb, but maintained...
Koko Monk by Levni Chocolate 7 Jun 2013 | 08:40 am
A quiet little pocket of Kitsilano sits along West 1st Ave between Burrard and Cypress, just off of the south end of the busy Burrard street bridge. It’s a beautiful area to explore by foot and just s...
The Art of Stinky Seafood 24 May 2013 | 10:47 am
Today I made a dish called “Tum Bhu Pla Ra.” After I finished, I realized that in one dish I put in not 1, not 2, but 3 different ingredients that by Western standard would be considered “stinky”: Fis...
